NOAM CHOMSKY ATTACKS 'TERRORIST STATE' U.S., ISRAEL WHILE VISITING HEZBOLLAH LEADER
THU May 11 2006 14:55:53 ET
Radical American thinker and MIT professor Noam Chomsky met with Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut today and branded the U.S. a
terrorist state.
"I think that Nasrallah has a reasoned argument and a persuasive
argument that they (the weapons) should be in the hands of Hizbollah as a
deterrent to potential aggression and there is plenty of background and
reasons for that. So, I think his position, if I am reporting it correctly,
and it seems to be a reasonable position, is that until there is a general
political settlement in the region and the threat of aggression and violence
is reduced or eliminated, there has to be a deterrent. The Lebanese army
cannot be a deterrent."
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"There is a meaning to the word terrorist, in fact you can read a
definition of term terrorist is the U.S. code of laws. It gives a very clear,
precise, adequate definition of the word terrorist. have been writing about
terrorism for 25 years always using the official U.S. definition [of the word
"terrorist"], but that definition is un-usable, and the reason is
that when you use that definition it turns out, not surprisingly, that the U.S
is one of the leading terrorist states, and the other states become terrorist
or non-terrorist depending on how they are relating to U.S. goals."
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"The regional superpower Israel is threatening to attack it
[Iran], the U.S. is threatening to attack it. These threats alone are outright
violations international law and of the U.N. charter. Iran is in difficulty.
Iran has been trying for some years to negotiate settlement but the U.S. just
refuses."
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